Richard N. Haass Quotes

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

A leader gets things done.

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.